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- From: bussiere@tohi.DMI.USherb.CA (Luc Bussieres)
- Subject: Re: How could I configure Solaris 2.1 to use the netgroup map?
- In-Reply-To: maslen@gday.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 12 Jan 1993 04:12:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <BUSSIERE.93Jan12143833@tohi.DMI.USherb.CA>
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- Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke, Dept. de Mathematiques et
- d'Informatique.
- References: <BUSSIERE.93Jan10101711@tohi.DMI.USherb.CA> <ll4h8rINN2eu@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:38:36 GMT
-
- In article <ll4h8rINN2eu@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> maslen@gday.Eng.Sun.COM (Thomas Maslen) writes:
- >
- > >Before I had change those 2 lines every users that where define in the
- > >NIS passwd map could log on the machine but they have to reenter there
- > >password (I didn't found yet the equivalence for the host.equiv file).
- > >After I had change it and put "+@staff:" at the end of the passwd file
- > >and "+" at the end of the group file, I have try a series of command
- > >which give strange result:
- >
- > Did you massage /etc/shadow as well? The rule of thumb is:
- >
- > Entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow should match one-for-one
- >
- > Beware that, in the grand Unix tradition, the routine that parses /etc/shadow
- > is a harsh god: if you don't get the number of colons exactly right it
- > won't like you.
-
- Thanks for the hint, there is a program name pwconv that convert
- correctly the passwd file and create a shadow file. My problem was
- with the shadow file where the line +@staff had the wrong format.
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- University of Sherbrooke
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